Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff watched his squad take their 265th podium finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix. But Wolff admitted that his team had been “punching above their weight” last Sunday, as he admitted that fighting for either championship in 2022 could be a struggle. Lewis Hamilton and new team mate George Russell were […]
Charles Leclerc won a close battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen before taking a classy victory as Ferrari took a one-two in a dramatic season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Leclerc and Verstappen staged a thrilling wheel-to-wheel dice after their first pit stops, swapping places five times in two laps before Leclerc moved ahead. The closing laps […]
Ricciardo hopes new rules and new McLaren MCL36 mean a return to his overtaking best McLaren driver Daniel Ricciardo hopes he will return to his best – dubbing himself the “D.R.I. double-C” – this season, explaining that the new rules and the team’s development process should suit him more than in 2021. The […]
Lewis Hamilton is aiming this season for a record eighth championship – but how has the Mercedes driver managed to stay at the head of the pack for so long? His former team mate Valtteri Bottas gave his thoughts on the matter before leaving the Silver Arrows. Bottas spent five years alongside Hamilton at Mercedes, […]
Charles Leclerc tests positive for coronavirus Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has tested positive for Covid-19. The 24-year-old, who finished seventh in the drivers’ championship this year, produced the positive test result on his return to Europe from the season’s final race in Abu Dhabi. Ferrari said he was “feeling fine and will […]
With images showing just how much construction work was still ongoing in the corniche area north of Jeddah, comments from the championship’s bosses were always explicit that the ‘track’ would be sorted on time. The inference from that was that a lot of the intended infrastructure around the circuit that is normal for F1 venues […]
